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Indonesian Minister of Industry  Airlangga Hartarto pushes the US industry’s players to newly expand and invest in Indonesia. So far, the investment from the USA has been in extractive industry sector. One of efforts to be pushed is expansion and investment in digital economic sector. After becoming a key  speaker at US-Indonesia Investment Summit to Media in Jakarta recently, Minister Airlangga said that the US has Google, Apple and many based-digital companies or Silicon Valley, a based company that dominates the world economy in industry revolution era 4.0. Therefore, his side will keep trying to create ecosystem in order the companies can invest in Indonesia.

“The USA has mostly invested at extractive industry. Of course, secondly the USA will encourage its investment  for 4.0 economy, digital economy. Therefore, we must be able to create ecosystem so that the digital economy can enter to Indonesia. In the past time, the US second revolution company was Ford as the champion. But current economy champions are Google, Apple, and Silicon Valley as based companies,” said Airlangga.

Minister Airlangga is optimistic that the formation of digital economy can be solution to grow start-ups business up to small-and-medium industry sector in Indonesia. He said  that one of the examples is that Apple has materialized its commitment to invest by building Apple Developer Academy in Tangerang City as innovation center in Indonesia. (Rezha/ Trans by AF)